One of the best performances in a movie this year was hands down Joaquin Phoenix's in Joker, and we have enough proof of that doing the rounds. After the actor won a Golden Globe for best actor in a motion picture drama for his role as a troubled Arthur Fleck in Joker, he added another one to his collection this year. The actor received the award for 'outstanding performance by a male actor for a film' at the 2020 SAG (Screen Actors Guild) Awards on Sunday, January 19, 2020. He beat his fellow nominees Leonardo DiCaprio and Adam Driver.

Earlier at the Golden Globe, Phoenix's speech was revered by the audience present there. Some found it a little too flamboyant but many thought he was bold enough to say what he did. For example, after acknowledging his fellow nominees in his speech, Phoenix, who has never been keen on award shows as such said- "There is no F***ing best actor". Everyone from the audience and the Twitter world appreciated his speech and this time, at the SAG awards too, the actor made a different speech altogether.

This time, the actor dedicated his win to former actor Heath Ledger, during his acceptance speech and that was the most humbling gesture known to anyone at an award function.

"I'm standing here on the shoulders of my favourite actor Heath Ledger," he said on stage.

Now this dedication wouldn't be tangible enough if Heath Ledger hadn't given DC's most loved and hated character, the 'Joker', due justice by playing him in the 2008 hit movie The Dark Knight. One of the best roles ever enacted back then by a 28-year-old, Joaquin surely had serious competition while winning an award for the same character, almost 11 years later.

But that's not all! Phoenix won hearts again, by crediting his fellow nominees sitting in the audience. He started with an anecdote about Once Upon A Time In Hollywood star, Leonardo DiCaprio, who has been an inspiration for Phoenix for over 25 years.

"When I started acting again, and going to auditions, I'd always get to like the final call back, and I think many people know what that's like. And there would always be, like, two other guys that I was up against. And we'd always lose to this one kid. No actor would ever say his name because it was, like, too much, but every casting director would whisper, 'It's Leonardo.'," he said in his acceptance speech.

After acknowledging Leo in his acceptance speech, the actor moved over to Ford v Ferrari actor, Christian Bale who he said "never turns in a bad performance." "It's infuriating," Phoenix added "I wish you would one time just suck once."

Lastly about Marriage Story actor, Adam Driver, he said "Adam [Driver], I've been watching you the last few years and you've been turning in these beautiful, nuanced, incredible profound performances. I'm just so moved by you…you should be here. Taran [Egerton], I'm so happy for you...you're so beautiful in this movie [Rocketman] and I'm so happy for you and I can't wait to see what else you do.”

And once again, after seeing how humble the actor really is, the fans are going crazy over Joaquin's speech. Seriously, not only has he dedicated his entire award to Heath Ledger, he even gave deserving compliments about their work to his fellow nominees. The actor does make his stage presence quite felt, TBH.

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In other news, Joaquin Phoenix gave a shoutout to Heath Ledger. What a man! Love Joaquin!!!❤ https://t.co/aUuY8954NE

We hope Joaquin continues giving us some excellent and inspirational performance in the future. While we can't wait for his next flick to release, we can't forget his phenomenal power play in Joker as well.